Voices in the Evening
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Rosie Jones
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Natalia Ginzburg
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From one of Italy’s greatest writers, a stunning novel “filled with shimmering, risky, darting observation” (Colm Tóibín)
After WWII, a small Italian town struggles to emerge from under the thumb of Fascism. With wit, tenderness, and irony, Elsa, the novel’s narrator, weaves a rich tapestry of provincial Italian life: two generations of neighbors and relatives, their gossip and shattered dreams, their heartbreaks and struggles to find happiness. Elsa wants to imagine a future for herself, free from the expectations and burdens of her town’s history, but the weight of the past will always prove unbearable, insistently posing the question: “Why has everything been ruined?”
©1961, 1971, 1984, 1998, 2003, 2013 & 2015; 1963; and 2019 Giulio Einaudi Editore SpA, Torino; D. M. Low; and Colm Tóibín (P)2021 New Directions Publishing Corp.